IFMAR stageII report - 10th off road Worlds.
 

IFMAR have a stage II report for the upcoming 1/10th off road World Championships to be held in Pretoria, South Africa.

I may be missing this, but couldn't see Lipos on the homologation lists, seems a bit strange??

From what I understand LIPO is not allowed at the worlds this year which is another reason why many are not attending I guess.......

Your right fella no lipo's, hense why there dosn't appear to be much interest in the worlds this year or are there other reasons ? :confused:

Oh good, I'm not going mad then, thanks guys!
Does seem very strange though, if EFRA and ROAR have legalised them then you'd have thought IFMAR would have kept up.
I've been wondering about the lack of interest too.

I think people are more scared of dieing, and i don't mean because of nimhs exploding :lol:

Pretoria is one of the worlds most dangerous cities.

It ranks along side sunderland and bilbao :woot:

South Africa isn't known to be the safest of places, either, that may have another reason, as I am sure, the big teams would field international drivers, lipo or not.

How was it in 2002 ?

People did get mugged just as they came out of the airport :thumbdown:

Another thing i found out was if this years worlds was void (cancelled) it goes back to the same place next time :lol:

Yeh that's what happened when it should have been held in 2001

When will they learn :lol:

I dont think they will get more than 30 people. Kecky could go and get a better result at the worlds than he did at a club night :thumbsup:

:lol::lol::lol:

I've spent lots of time in South Africa over the years. I've felt more threatened in some British cities TBH. I've certainly had some interesting moments in Manchester :thumbdown:

It's a shame more people aren't looking to go to SA, 'cause it's proper ace. At least, that's what the SA Tourism Board asked me to say :thumbsup:

Jokes apart - the place rocks.

But did you get robbed between the airport and the car hire place at gun point,and lose all your racing gear,

Ive worked in Durban, and i was told buy the guide who took me to my job if i walked down the wrong street my testicles would be in a soup.

There are a few Australians over in SA for a 1/8 offroad race and they're loving it over there, they went over and checked out the worlds venue and cant understand why people aren't going for safety reasons...

Those who choose not to go for whatever reason will have to sit back and watch a pair of new World Champions be crowned. I think the SA guys will put on a great championships and I can't wait to see some racing - some big names missing or not.

In Manchester? No, it was at knifepoint.

Nahh, only kidding of course. I know SA has crime problems in certain areas, but by and large it's an amazing country.

I think this venue is a TRAP :p

No wonder people aren't willing to go :lol:

It is always easy to make dumb comments about a country if you haven't visited it yourself. :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

The British & Irish Lions toured South Africa a few months ago. I was at the test at Loftus that is in Pretoria, not to far from the venue for the Worlds. There were more B & I Lions supporters than South Africans, and there were now incidents!!!! I think more than a 100 000 supporters made the trip to SA and all had a wonderfull time. :thumbsup:

We are looking forward to welcoming the drivers that will make the trip and I can guarantee you they will have wonderfull memories to take back to their countries.